mjmurray68
Member
Greetings folks,
I'm a proud owner of a brand spanky new X650 Pro. Drew at XAircraftAmerica was incredibly helpful and patient with my newbie questions, and I picked up the X650 Pro/SuperX combo from him. I'm running fully stock with Futaba 8FGS/R6208SB.
I have a quick question for the gurus on the board, I've searched this forum/google and haven't been able to find an answer.
I finished my build on Friday and ran my configurations this AM, and aside from a few stumbles on calibrating the compass everything went well. I was running a fully charged/balanced Turnigy nano-Tech 5000mAh 4S, and wasn't really 'flying' as much as I was learning some basics; a good deal of take-offs/landings and some basic back and forth/up and down maneuvering.
After a while, the X650 started getting pretty erratic on take offs, one motor was lagging/dropping out and eventually I had my first 'flip' on a take off. After that I reset everything, and my LED was indicating everything was good to go, but the motors would not stay running. They would start, but cut out as soon as I raised the throttle. I assumed, and was correct that the battery was drained, which makes sense. I was running close 10-15 minutes with a lot of touch and goes, so I think the battery. Everything ran as good as new once I switched out to another battery.
So my question is this: My understanding is that the LED was supposed to flash red to indicate that you had < 2 minutes of flight time remaining in the battery. Is that not the case, or is there a setting that I overlooked somewhere? I will likely be picking up the XA OSD, but until I do if I didn't overlook a setting, is there a recommended way to monitor the battery?
Thanks in Advance!
I'm a proud owner of a brand spanky new X650 Pro. Drew at XAircraftAmerica was incredibly helpful and patient with my newbie questions, and I picked up the X650 Pro/SuperX combo from him. I'm running fully stock with Futaba 8FGS/R6208SB.
I have a quick question for the gurus on the board, I've searched this forum/google and haven't been able to find an answer.
I finished my build on Friday and ran my configurations this AM, and aside from a few stumbles on calibrating the compass everything went well. I was running a fully charged/balanced Turnigy nano-Tech 5000mAh 4S, and wasn't really 'flying' as much as I was learning some basics; a good deal of take-offs/landings and some basic back and forth/up and down maneuvering.
After a while, the X650 started getting pretty erratic on take offs, one motor was lagging/dropping out and eventually I had my first 'flip' on a take off. After that I reset everything, and my LED was indicating everything was good to go, but the motors would not stay running. They would start, but cut out as soon as I raised the throttle. I assumed, and was correct that the battery was drained, which makes sense. I was running close 10-15 minutes with a lot of touch and goes, so I think the battery. Everything ran as good as new once I switched out to another battery.
So my question is this: My understanding is that the LED was supposed to flash red to indicate that you had < 2 minutes of flight time remaining in the battery. Is that not the case, or is there a setting that I overlooked somewhere? I will likely be picking up the XA OSD, but until I do if I didn't overlook a setting, is there a recommended way to monitor the battery?
Thanks in Advance!